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Clutz highlights sustainability progress year-on-year
As we enter 2020, Clayton Utz has provided an update on its social impact and sustainability efforts for the past 12 months.
Emma Musgrave
The 2019 AusLSA Sustainability Update has been released, highlighting that Clutz is one of 40 members that contributed to its four key sustainability pillars: people, environmental sustainability, community and governance.
The update also recognised Clayton Utz’s flexible working practices, its female partner representation (currently sitting at 30 per cent) and its training, explaining the firm trained almost one in 8 people this year as Mental Health First Aiders and Mental Health Champions, and appointed its first-ever National Mental Health Manager.
In terms of environmental sustainability, AusLSA recognised Clutz for its focus on being carbon-neutral, having fully offset its financial year 2019 carbon emissions (representing 16,211 tonnes); and its disposal of single use cups across all of its offices.
In terms of community, the update recognised, among other things, the Clayton Utz Foundation as having distributed over $800,000 to community partners and organisations; and its pro bono efforts, whereby more than 42,800 hours of pro bono work were completed in FY19.
Lastly, in terms of governance, AusLSA recognised Clayton Utz as having reviewed and enhanced its crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery procedures; and having obtained ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security, for the fifth consecutive year.
Clayton Utz environment and planning partner and AusLSA co-chair, Brendan Bateman, said it was “encouraging that more firms were seeing the benefits of a collaborative approach to improving the legal sector’s sustainability performance and impact”.
“By sharing knowledge and ideas with each other, and making changes and investing in areas where we know we can do better, AusLSA member firms are showing they have a real and long-term commitment to being better businesses.”
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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